Re: JPEGViewer woes

[Stephen Carpenter <sjc@delphi.com>]

Andy Brobston <andyb@vpnet.chi.il.us> writes:
 
>I've had absolutely no luck with djpeg. Perhaps it's because I'm using it with
>Orca/M, but shouldn't that work? I'm not too sure how to use it, and the
>documentation is a little confusing...
>
>Andy Brobston
>andyb@vpnet.chi.il.us
 
Well to answer your question in a word...NO
gno/me is a version of UNIX
Because of the way it is made, stuff made for orca will work in it but stuff
written
for it may make use of certain UNIX system calls
I ran into a problem with these porting a program known as PGP to the GS
(YES BTW I am porting PGP to the GS for any who care to know but no estimate
on when I will be done)
One of thes (as an example though it has nothing whatsoever to do with JPG
decoding)
is a GETTIMEOFDAY() call (I think)
I have to rewrite the routine that calls this to use calls that exist in GS/OS
(as I don't have GNO/ME) and I can't even figure out where to start.
so now to bring my rambling to an end...no
GNO/ME is (as I understand it) an overlay over GS/OS and has a few of its
own system calls  which are not available in ORCA
(though it is possible that this program is usable in orca IF IT DOES NOT HAVE
ANY UNIX SPECIFIC CODE)
Sounds to me like it does
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